Roderick Ewins, PhD
A. Art and Art Education publications
1981 Vanishing
Landscape (Penny Smith
Ceramics). Adelaide,Festival Centre Gallery
1987 “Centre
for the Arts”, Pottery in Australia. Aug:60-61 (5 col.illustr.)
1988 Benjamin
Sheppard [biography]
in Australian Dictionary of Biography v.11.
1991 (with
E.Colless) Igor Podolchak: Ukrainian Printmaker. Hobart, Tasmanian School of Art (12p,6ill)
1993
“Establishing credibility for art research within ‘old’ university communities
and funding bodies”, Seni 3(3):50-55. Yogyakarta (Indonesia).
1994 “Art
and the ARC: Surviving the flood, and flowing round the obstacle”, Papers
and Proceedings of Third National Art Research Conference, Wollongong (http://www.justpacific.com/art/articles/arc~flow.pdf)
1994 “The
pursuit of culture and other forlorn endeavours” Online article (http://www.justpacific.com/art/articles/culture.pdf)
1998 “Social
stress, art and community” in IMPRINT, The Quarterly Journal of the Print
Council of Australia, 33
(Summer):2-4 (http://www.justpacific.com/art/articles/art&community.pdf)
B. Anthropology publications
(a) Books/videos on Fijian art
1982a
Fijian
Artefacts. Hobart, Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery
1982b
Mat-weaving in Gau, Fiji. Suva, Fiji
Museum
1989
Kuro: Amele Nacewa, master potter of Fiji (Video & DVD, co-production with Leigh
Hobba). Hobart, University of Tasmania*
1999
Ethnic Art and Ritual in the Negotiation of Identity: the Social
Role of Bark-cloth in Vatulele Island, Fiji. Unpublished PhD Thesis, School of
Sociology & Social Work, University of Tasmania
2009 Staying Fijian: Vatulele Island barkcloth and
social identity.
Adelaide (S.A.), Crawford House Publishing Australia & Honolulu (HI),
University of Hawaii Press.
2013?
[Working title-ms. in preparation] Fijian Artefacts: Collections in Australian Collections.
(b) Book chapters and papers on the anthropology of art
1980 "Traditional Craft in Developing
Countries: Living Fossil or Living Art?" Keynote Address in First South Pacific Arts Conference
Report. Suva, Fiji
Ministry of Education. pp.42-56
1987a
"Lali: the
Drums of Fiji", Domodomo: Fiji Museum
Quarterly 4(4):42-169
(see also 1999, below)
1987b
"Bark-cloth and the
Origins of Paper " in Conference
Papers,1st National Paper Conference. Hobart, Papermakers of Australia.pp.11-15
1987c
Fijian Pottery [Exhibition cat., text, photography,
design, 8 p.,9 b&w illustrations, map) Hobart, University of Tasmania
1987d
"A Fijian Potter at the
University of Tasmania" in Pottery in Australia. Aug. p.66-67 (1 col. illustration)
1995
"Proto-Polynesian
art? The Cliff Paintings of Vatulele, Fiji" in Journal of the Polynesian Society 103(1): 23-74 [map, 14 figs, 17 photos]
1999 "The Acoustic Properties of Fijian
'Slit-gongs'" in Art and Performance in Oceania, Eds Barry Craig, Bernie Kernot and Christopher
Anderson. Bathurst (NSW): Crawford House Press, Chapter 17, pp.173-178 (see
also 1987a, above)
2000 "All Things
Bright and Beautiful, Or All Things Wise And Wonderful? Objects From Island
Oceania in The Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery" in Pacific Arts 15 & 16: 71-87
2001
“Fiji’s New
Western Confederacy” In Lal, Brij Vatulele and Michael Pretes (eds): Coup:
Reflections on the Political Crisis in Fiji. Canberra, Pandanus Press (Australian National
University), Ch.19, pp.107-112 (originally published on JustPacific.com as an
online article). (Whole book available as free pdf download from http://epress.anu.edu.au/coup_citation.html)
2004
"Symmetry and semiotics: the case of Fijian bark-cloth
decoration" Chapter 9, Embedded symmetries, natural and cultural (Amerind New World Studies Series).
D.Washburn (ed). Albuquerque (NM), University of New Mexico Press. pp.160-183. Publisher's note.
2007
"The perils of ethnographic provenance; the documentation of the Johnson
Fiji collection in the South Australian Museum." Chapter 3 IN Hunting
the collectors; Pacific collections in Australian museums, art galleries and
archives, Susan Cochrane
and Max Quanchi (eds). Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. pp. 33-67.
2010 "Dard
Hunter and the 'bark-paper' of the Pacific: insights into technical,
technological, and cultural affinities." Chapter 4 IN Speaking of
paper…The Anita Lynn Forgach keynote speakers, edited by Whitney S. Baker. Chillicothe (OH):
Friends of Dard Hunter, Inc. pp.39-57
2010 "Fijian
Dress and Body Modifications," IN Vol.7, Part 11, "Polynesia".
Berg
Encyclopedia of World Dress and Fashion, Oxford (U.K.), Berg Fashion Library, Ltd. pp.435-43
(c) Book reviews
1983 "Future Directions in the Study of
the Arts of Oceania" Judith Huntsman (ed). Mankind 4(2):141-2
1999 "The
Poetic Power of Place: Comparative Perspectives on Austronesian Ideas of
Locality" James J.Fox. The Australian Journal of Anthropology 10(1):104-5
2001a
"The Maori and the Crown: An indigenous
people's struggle for self-determination" By Dora Alves. Pacific
Affairs 74(2): 292-293
2001b
"Fiji before the storm:
elections and the politics of development" Brij Lal (ed) Pacific
Affairs 74(2): 298-299
2001c
"Confronting Fiji
futures" Akram-Lodhi (ed) Pacific Affairs 74(2): 300-302
2001d
"Kie
hingoa 'named mats', 'Ie toga 'fine mats' and other treasured textiles of Samoa
and Tonga" (JPS Special Issue) Pacific Arts 23-24: 123-6
2002a
"Living on the
fringe: Melanesians in Fiji." Winston Halapua. Pacific Affairs 75(3): 501-2 Fall 2002
2002b.
“The traditional
pottery of Papua New Guinea” May & Tuckson. Pacific Arts 23-24: 129-31
2003 "Represented
communities: Fiji and world decolonization." John D. Kelly and Martha
Kaplan. Pacific Affairs
75(4): 654-5 January 2003
2004 “Samoan art &
artists: O Measina a Samoa."
Sean Mallon. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press. 2002. Pacific Affairs 77(2):384-5 July.
2005
“The method of hope:
anthropology, philosophy and Fijian knowledge." Hirozaku Miyazaki.
Stanford (CA): Stanford University Press. 2004. Pacific Affairs 78(2):336-7 July
2006 "After the Rush.
Regulation, Participation, and Chinese Communities in Australia 1860-1940."
Edited by Sophie Couchman, John Fitzgerald and Paul Macgregor. Victoria
(Australia): Otherland Literary Journal (Special Issue No 9). 2004. Pacific
Affairs 79(2) July
2009 “Pacific Pattern” by Susanne Küchler & Graeme Were. London. Thames
& Hudson, 2005. Museum Anthropology Review 3(2).
2010 "OCEANIA: Art
of the Pacific Islands in The Metropolitan Museum of Art." By Eric
Kjellgren. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art; New Haven and London: Yale
University Press. 2007. Pacific Affairs. 83(1): 220-221 Spring, March 2010
2010
July "Collective creativity:
Art and society in the South Pacific," by Katherine Giuffre.
Anthropology and Cultural History in Asia and the Indo-Pacific Series, Ashgate,
Farnham and Burlington, 2009. Anthropological Forum 20(2):176–178
2011
(900 word review)
"Pacific Images: Views from Captain Cook’s Third Voyage", by
Eleanor C. Nordyke and James A. Mattison Jr. Privately published, Distributed
by University of Hawai’i Press, Honolulu. Second Edition, 2008. Museum
Anthropology Review 5(1-2):
76-79.
(d) Consultancies
1999
Oct. FHWilliams Museum of Papermaking (Atlanta GA, USA). Survey, photographing
and cataloguing of Dard Hunter collection of Pacific bark-cloth.
2001
Sept-Oct. South Australian Museum, Adelaide. Survey, photographing and detailed
comment on collection of some 900 Fiji items. http://www.justpacific.com/fiji/sam/index.html
2005
May-Sept. UNESCO: Evaluation
of submission to UNESCO by Uganda, for possible proclamation of Uganda traditional
barkcloth as a
“Masterpiece of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity”. R.Ewins produced
7,000 word report recommending proclamation under specified conditions.
Recommendation accepted by UNESCO and proclamation duly made in Dec. 2005 .
2007
February. Victoria Museum, Melbourne. Survey, Survey and detailed comment on
collection of some 1,000 Fiji items.
2009 May.
Australian Museum, Sydney. Survey. Survey and detailed comment (in database
form) on collection of Fiji material.
2009
September. Queensland Art Gallery. Consultation on catalogue and didactic
leaflet preparation for exhibition "Paperskin: Barkcloth across the
Pacific", 31 Oct.09 —14 Feb.10 http://qag.qld.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/80948/Paperskin_online_11.11.pdf
2011 May-June.
Survey and detailed comment (in database form) on collections of Fiji material
in: Grassi Museum, Leipzig; University Ethnology Museum, Göttingen; Rautenstrauch-Joest
Museum, Köln; Saffron Walden Museum, Essex; National Museum of Scotland, Edinburgh.
(e) Book Citations of published material of R.Ewins (in Author alphabetical order)
Boissevain,
J. ed. Coping with tourists: European reactions to mass tourism. Providence RI: Berghahn Books. 1996.
Bolton,
Lissant. Unfolding the moon: enacting women's kastom in Vanuatu. Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press.
2003.
Carlier,
Jean-Edouard. Archipels Fidji-Tonga-Samoa: la Polynésie Occidentale. Paris: Galerie Voyageurs & Curieux.
2005.
Clark,
Kevin. Handcraft trade in the South Pacific: A case study [Fiji and Samoa]. NZCTD Pacific Handcraft Research
Project,Report No.2. Wellington: New Zealand Coalition for Trade and
Development. 1984
Clunie,
F. Yalo i Viti: a Fiji Museum Catalogue. Suva, Fiji Museum, 1986
Crowe,
D. & D.Nagy, "Cakaudrove patterns". Colloquia Mathematica
Societatis János Bolyai,
Szeged (Hungary) 63 (Intuitive Geometry):78-84, 1991
Crowe,
D. & D.Nagy, "Cakaudrove-style Masi Kesa of Fiji" in Ars Textrina 18 :119-155, 1992
Crowe,
D.Symmetries of culture. Online article http://members.tripod.com/vismath6/crowe1/
accessed March 20th 2002
Edmundson,
Anna, and Chris Boylan Adorned: traditional jewellery and body decoration
from Australia and the Pacific [exhibition catalogue]. Sydney: Macleay Museum, University of
Sydney. 1999
Franklin,
Adrian. Tourism: an introduction. London: Sage. 2003
Goldson,
Barry, Michael Lavalette, and Jim McKechnie. Children, welfare and the state. London, Sage. 2003
Hooper,
Steven. "Gatu vakaviti, the great barkcloths of Southern Lau, Fiji." IN D. Smidt, P. ter
Keurs and A. Trouwborst (eds). Pacific material culture: essays in honour of
Dr Simon Kooijman on the occasion of his 80th birthday (Bulletin #28). Leiden, National Museum
of Ethnography. 1995
Jewell,
R. & J. Lloyd. Pacific designs. London: British Museum. 1998
Kaeppler,
Adrienne L. Animal designs on Samoan siapo and other thoughts on West
Polynesian barkcloth designs. Journal of the Polynesian Society 114 (3):197-226. 2005.
Kjellgren,
Eric. Oceania: art of the Pacific Islands in the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, The Metropolitan Museum of Art
& New Haven & London, Yale University Press. 2007.
McInnes,
L. Water on Vatulele. University of Sydney, BSc.thesis,1986
Mallon,
Sean. Samoan art & artists: O Measina a Samoa. Honolulu: University of Hawai’i Press.
2002
Manansala,
Paul Kekai. Quests of the Dragon and Bird Clan. Lulu.com. 2006
Necker,
L. Étoffes Cosmiques; les Anciens Tapas d'Océanie. Geneva, Museum of
Ethnography, 1987
Neich,
R. & M. Prendergast. Traditional tapa textiles of the Pacific. London: Thames & Hudson.1997.
Phillips,
L. et al. Art of the Pacific Islands (CDRom). Honolulu: Pacific Resources for Education
and Learning. 1999
Poole,
M. and G.Swafford, "Bitter sweet: the broad context of research and music
education in Australia" in Research Studies in Music Education 1(1):2-12, 1993
Spenneman,
D. Saulaca: Fijian sail needles in Domodomo: Fiji Museum
Quarterly 4(2):82-97 Suva, Fiji Museum, 1987
Spicer,
Catherine & Rondo Me. Fiji masi, an ancient art in the new millenium. Gold Coast (Qld) 2004
Stephenson,
Elsie. Fiji’s past on picture postcards. Suva, Caines Jannif Group. 1997.
Thode-Arora, Hilke. Tapa und tiki: die
polynesian-Sammlung des Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums.(Bestandskatalog,
Ethnologica Neue Folge Band 23). Köln [Cologne]: Gesselschaft für
Völkerkunde, Verein zur Förderung des R-J-M der Stadt Köln
[Anthropological Association, Society for the Promotion of the
Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museums of the City of Cologne]. 2001.
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Plus
a number of reviews of R.Ewins's books and articles in journals.
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